The William & Mary Board of Visitors recently approved resolutions at their September 2009 meetings regarding the appointment of instructional faculty members, the appointment of professionals and professional faculty members, the confirmation of academic tenure, designated professorships and faculty leaves of absence.

The College of William and Mary will test its emergency alert system Wednesday Sept. 2, 2009. The drill, which will be conducted at 12:15 p.m., will include both a test of the campus-wide siren system and the mass notification messaging system.

The College of William & Mary and Walter R. Beales III announced today that Evan French, a graduate of Prince Edward County High School in Farmville, Va., is the recipient of the Harriett Pittard Beales Scholarship at William & Mary for academic year 2009-10.

Carl Strikwerda, Dean of the Faculty in Arts and Sciences at William & Mary, sent the following e-mail to A&S faculty and staff regarding the appointment of Teresa Long, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, to Dean for Educational Policy.

The College of William and Mary will test its emergency alert system Wednesday June 3, 2009. The drill, which will be conducted at 12:15 p.m., will include both a test of the campus-wide siren system and the mass notification messaging system.

Longtime "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw, one of the most highly regarded figures in broadcast journalism, will receive an honorary degree and deliver the main address at the College of William & Mary Commencement Exercises on May 17, 2009.

Anna Martin, vice president for administration and chair of William & Mary's Emergency Management Team, sent the following informational message to the College community Tuesday regarding the swine flu. -Ed

William & Mary's Office of Procurement, in collaboration with the Committee on Sustainability, announces that it has changed the College's preferred type of general purpose copier/printer paper from a virgin 0% recycled option to a 75% recycled content paper.

Professor Elizabeth Canuel of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and colleagues have received seed funding from the College of William and Mary to establish a multidisciplinary study group to explore the use of algae as a source of biofuels.